The nature and management of knowledge.(Managing Minds--Euro Abstracts)(Abstract)

From: Database and Network Journal | Date: August 1, 2004 | Copyright information

In the ongoing search for best practice' in management, each decade produces new buzzwords. In recent years, knowledge management'--usually defined as the systematic capture, use and sharing of knowledge by an organisation to improve its performance and competitiveness--has become the phrase on senior managers lips. That is because, more than ever before, knowledge matters.

The western world's economy is now said to be 'knowledge-based' Businesses want to recruit knowledge workers. They worry about knowledge loss. They seek advice on how to leverage knowledge resources to ...

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